About attitudes when reciting sutras

It's fine. Your gratitude has always been conveyed to your ancestors. Please don't worry. And please don't feel sad. Your ancestors went out of their way to say, “Thank you, I'm happy,” but if you're sad, your ancestors will be sad too.

For reference, I'll write my feelings when giving sutras. It translates difficult sentences, so it would be nice if it was conveyed well...

“To give sutras is to accrue sutras is to accrue sutras of great merit. It is explained that the merits of reciting the sutras alone do not beat the merits of reciting one sutras, rather than putting many gold and silver treasures or more treasures beyond that in various sutras. When reciting sutras, you should concentrate your mind and chant clearly in a voice (pitch) that is easy to make. Also, when you are reciting sutras, Tenryu Hachibu Shushu (Buddha, gods, people saved by Buddhism, people who protect those who believe in Buddhism, etc.) surround you and listen to your sutras. In other words, you should think that you are teaching the people around you. Then, when you have finished chanting the sutras, hope that the merits of chanting the sutras will go not only to yourself, but to all living beings, and pray that someday we will all attain Buddhism together.”

This is a translation of some of the words that Senshi preached.
Please keep up the good work.

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　Thank you for your precious training. You don't have to worry about that. I have a desire to recite sutras, and I practice. I'm sure Grandpa would be happy with that alone.

If the family temple is nearby, I think it is best to seek guidance from the chief priest of the family temple. I think there are many people who feel that the threshold is high when someone without a family temple knocks on the gate of a temple they don't know. YouTube videos are helpful, but if you try to match them from the beginning, I think it's very difficult.

I think there is a phonetic spelling in the sutras. It's fine to take your time, so read it carefully, word by word. Even if you try to read it all through, it may be difficult to keep going because you get used to it. If that's the case, I think it's a good idea to read the Heart Sutra in 3 parts instead of trying to read them all at once.

For example
1. “Kanjizai Bosatsu ~~ Immortality, Impurity, Impurity, Growth, Undiminished”
2. “Being in the Air ~~ Disgusting Everything, Dreaming, and Nirvana”
3. “The Third Buddha Yohannya-Haramitta ~~ Bodhisattva Heart Sutra”
Let's divide it into 3 parts and repeat it over and over again for each part. Once you get used to reading, you'll be able to read it fluently from beginning to end. Please do your best.

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The reading of the Heart Sutra is very thankful and precious.

The Heart Sutra is a sutra that explains “the sky,” which is an important idea of wisdom in Buddhism.

At the end of Master Shantarakshita's “Chukan Solemn Theory,” it is said that if you can develop this “emptiness” wisdom in your mind, the more you deepen your understanding of “sky” to the extent that it is stated that “if you can naturally benefit (be useful to sentient beings),” that alone will benefit sentient beings.

Also, its merit means that you can use it as food for enlightenment for yourself, your ancestors, or all sentient beings.

So, even if you just recite the Heart Sutra, which explains the essence of the wisdom of “the sky,” I think you can of course think that it will be a merit to your ancestors, and in other words, it is an expression of gratitude, so it's fine.

Also, if possible, I would be grateful if you could learn and understand what the wisdom of the “sky” described in the Heart Sutra is.

When it comes to understanding “sky,” the idea of “luck” is also important.

By all means, please also understand “good fortune.”

Also, if possible, after the sutras have been recited, I hope you can turn the merits of chanting sutras (to everyone).

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Hope uses this virtue to do everything in general
May we and sentient beings all practice Buddhism

Three Treasures
Jikkō III: All the Buddhas, Boson Bosatsu, Satsuma, Mahaannya, Haramitsu
(Jho-san shihehehehehehehee-sonboosa-mo-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

In Indian culture, where people listen and memorize rather than write and read, it was sutras reciting = memorizing = studying. I study in my head with the text I've memorized.
Writing and reading In China, the meaning of chanting sutras became a memorial service praising the Buddha's virtue at a memorial service. In order to study, I use written scriptures. You don't have to memorize them, so I'll take a sutras and recite them. You should take the sutras and recite sutras until you can memorize them naturally.
Then, do a ceremony called a memorial service, and you'll feel good about yourself. My mind calms down, and I feel uplifted by the feeling of facing the Buddha and my ancestors. They do such good deeds, read Kaitoubun at the end, and transfer all of their merits to sentient beings. For things that are not a set with Kaikōmon, like the Heart Sutra, you either use a different kaigōmon, or you turn it yourself, saying, “I will turn all of this merit to my ancestors and sentient beings.” Even if you don't turn around, it will be your own merit.
Therefore, when reciting sutras, don't think about the meaning and concentrate so that your mind is at peace. Once you've finished chanting the sutras, don't turn around, and if you want to study in a normal state.
As for the origin, benefits, and methods of merit conversion, Fujimoto Akira's “Why can Kudoku be converted?” We will advertise (Kokusho Publishing Association).